Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

Since there are only a few videographers on this forum at present, I thought it might be good to share what our current or future project plans are. I have two projects in mind but haven't decided yet.
We have woods behind our house so I thought that in a few weeks when spring starts to arrive I would do a "Spring is coming" type of piece highlighting the new growth, some nature coming alive.
The second project I was thinking of was a video of looking through the microscope at some specimens.
How about you guys? What are you planning or working on at present?

Scoutman Loc: Orlando, FL

A day in the life of a bus rider in Orlando. With subjective point of view; walking to the bus stop, the waiting, the sounds "Please have exact change ready when boarding the bus," the passengers - both on the bus, and waiting at the central terminal, the bus in rush hour traffic, finally ending with riding home at night in the rain - windshield wipers going with a background of bokeh tail-lights, "Please remember your belongings when exiting the bus." Maybe just a little bit of voice over, here and there.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

When I lived in LA as a college student in the 60's, there was nothing lonelier than riding the bus. Maybe because nearly everyone drove in LA. But as a commuter in New York City, riding the bus was a much more inclusive experience as it was the norm for commuters to use public transportation. What's it like in Orlando?

Scoutman Loc: Orlando, FL

It is great in Orlando. Sold my car because of it, since I did not need a vehicle for work, but when I do want a vehicle, I can rent one. Even when taking a taxi occasionally, busing ends up in cost savings over the course of a year. Orlando also has a free bus that shuttles people around the core downtown area. Waiting is the worst part. Reading while riding, one of the best.

I grew up in Los Angeles and used public transportation there from early on. Even streetcars until they were abandoned in favor of smog producing buses. I took the bus when I attended LACC, generally standing room only, both ways. Same for UCLA, where parking was too expensive, and traffic to and from campus, heavy and frustrating. Met lots of girls under both circumstances, who I otherwise would not have gotten that close to. Included my wife on a UCLA route that we both took because our class schedules happened to coincide. Lagniappe!

And Manhattan and surrounding boroughs - been there too.
The city has a huge new subway tunnel underway that will parallel an existing one and run lengthwise, not crosstown. Again: public transportation lets one get close to the girls, girls, girls. Which you notice if you're not too busy reading.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

Yeah, I met my wife on the NY subway during the evening rush hour. That was 42 years ago. Now we are retired in a small ranch style house in Southern N.J.
I lived at home and went to UCLA from 1964-1968. We lived in an apartment near Beverly and Western. It took 20 minutes to drive to UCLA, but the bus took about an hour and 40 minutes, stopping at almost every block for about 6 miles. I only took that bus 2 or 3 times. Without a car or motor cycle I felt crippled in LA. With it, all I needed was a couple of bucks for gas and the world was my oyster.

I see by one of your previous posts you liked Warhol. I saw Chelsea Girls in the theater when it first came out in LA. Nearly the whole audience left before it was over, but I stuck it out. When I left the theater the light bulb went off in my head and I realized the movie wasn't a story, it was an experience. Watching it for about three hours I had become just as bummed out as the people in the Chelsea Hotel.

Just started watching "Free Radicals" a documentary about the history of experimental film, on Netflix. Quite inspiring in terms of film-making.

Scoutman Loc: Orlando, FL

I'll have to try to view "Free Radicals."

I was class of 1963 and lived on Barrington near Wilshire. Easy bus ride from either Wilshire or Santa Monica. On the bus returning from UCLA, the ride went through the Veteran's Hospital grounds there. It was always interesting to see them on the grounds, many in a wandering daze. On exiting the hospital grounds, a security guard would always board to check for potential escapees. UCLA did and still does have many clinical psychology programs there. And UCLA clinical psychology as well as general psych, programs are ranked quite high, nationally. Nos 1 and 2 by some recent poll. I was a psychology major, but did not want to pursue clinical study requiring another four years or more. Instead, I went to USC's library school and ultimately used the psych background in medical school libraries where I worked for most of my career.

Mind droppings. More than you asked for.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

Not at all. We're at an age where memories can be really enjoyable to share and to hear. I had a studio apartment near Barrington and Wilshire in my senior year. I think there were lots of students renting in that area. I was class of '68 at UCLA and majored in Political Science. I went to Hastings Law School in SF for a year and decided I really didn't want to spend my life as a lawyer. Came back to LA and took a class at LACC in 1970 to learn fingerprint analysis. Just missed passing the civil service exam to be a fingerprint analyst for the California Highway Patrol and moved to NY. Worked in Credit and collections, Training, Technical Writing, Auditing, and finally found my niche in computers in 1989. Really loved working as a Unix Sys Admin and Data Base Admin and retired in 2007. Often wonder how my life would have turned out if I had gotten that 10th fingerprint classified on the civil service exam before time was called. Karma I guess.

W00F1 Loc: Lexington, KY

Been on UHH for a while and although I love still photography, but video is my real love. Do we post our own digital video projects? I do time lapse, animation, standard video. Ten second video is fun, also five second projects. How does this work? How can we get this going?

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

I've been waiting for another response to this question. Post your videos on youtube (or vimeo) and post a link here. A few have posted links to their work here. Looking forward to getting more participation and sharing of work and ideas/opinions/speculations on creating video here. I think if more people participate, it may serve to provide motivation to do more. For me it's hard to put in the work required when there's little to no feedback.
Bob